“A year ago, when I heard that some audiophiles were using Sony’s original PlayStation 1 as a CD player—my friend Michael Lavorgna, who writes for 6moons.com, was the first to cross my attention—I was more than a little confused. Sure, I’d heard of the Sony PlayStation, just as I’ve heard of the Game Boy and [...]
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“Instead of adapting cycling to established bike lanes, the bike lane should adapt to the cyclists. This is the idea behind the LighLane. Our system projects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to avoid. With a wider margin of safety, bikers will regain [...]
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With cold and dark weather the norm this time of year, suddenly certain dishes that don’t look and sound so good in July become the perfect comfort foods. Of course soups and stews head up this list of comfort foods. One such stew that I came to know when doing a January trip to Ireland [...]
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Apparently vision experts in England have concluded that the gains in resolution via Blu-Ray aren’t worth it for many folks, as they can’t see the difference. Why is that? They don’t have good enough vision. “But many consumers are wasting hundreds of pounds on high-definition equipment because their eyes are not sharp enough to pick [...]
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A few years back Mark Bittman had a column (The Secret of Great Bread: Let Time Do the Work) talking about no knead bread he had been introduced too. The bread wasn’t some soda bread or pound cake, it was a real yeast bread with character, flavor and texture, things that we all associate with [...]
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“Fast-food chain Burger King has created “Whopper Sacrifice,” a Facebook app that will give you a coupon for a free hamburger if you delete 10 people from your friends list.” via Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper | The Social – CNET News. Gotta give them some points for creativity, Burger King ads [...]
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A few weeks back I was driving down King Ave. here in the Short North and I noticed a store front advertising Empanadas. I thought it must have been a new little Mexican hole in the wall (which would have been sweet) but on my way back I stopped in to see what it was. [...]
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For whatever reason, recently I got interested in doing some baking. Without having really looked to much into it I started making some cinnamon rolls (to be clear I have done baking before, but not as much yeast leavened baking – with the exception having worked on pizza dough for a while). For those not [...]
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“”It won’t come as a surprise that they love nature documentaries, but they also like soaps like Coronation Street and Emmerdale.” via the Telegraph (UK) one of those heartwarming stories that everyone seems to love and half the time I hate, but occasionally even I can get into (come on this is [...]
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